On 11.11.2010 15:39, David wrote:
> ...
> For example, in my 'day job' one of the products requires a data set of
> about 50MB of XML data.
> Transferring that over say an Edge connection or even 3G in a congested
> area like San Fransisco in text is a killer (hours).
> Using a binary encode compressed XML format reduces this to about 8MB
> which is still painful but under the boarder of killer. (20-40 minutes
> instead of hours).
>
> We were completely unable to adopt this technique to the Palm Web/OS due
> to the inability to do binary IO and efficient binary parsing.
> ...
Are you saying those do not support
Content-Encoding: gzip
?
Best regards, Julian
